Improvement in hog-traps



M. C AYWOOD.

Improvement in Hog-Traps.

Patented June, 4. 1872.

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PATENT QFFIGE.

MARTIN UAYWOOD, OF FARMINGTON, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOG-TRAPS.

- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,461, dated June4, 1879.

SPECIFICATION.

I, MARTIN OAYWOOD, of Farmington, in the county of Fulton and State ofIllinois, have invented certain Improvements in the Method of Securingand Holding Swine, to Snout or Ring their Noses, of which the followingis a specification:

The object of this invention is to provide means by which one or twopersons can speedilyand successfully secure swine to cut their snouts orplace rings in their noses to prevent them from rooting.

For explanation of this specification and the means I use, reference ismade to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of a snoutin gpen. Fig. 2 is a ground plan of the same. Fig.

' 3 is an end elevation, showing inside of front end. Fig. 4 is a sideelevation.

General Description.

twelve inches above the foot of the posts. Vertically of these frontstrips and board G I nail groovedbearing-strips H I, between which is toslide up and down the gate K, in the lower edge of which is cut the halfof an ellipse, and which is secured to L at any desired height by a pinand series of holes. This gate passes down and in front of Gr. I put ina floor in the front half of my pen, raising the front enough to mylifting-frame and the hole in the gate, so that the pig can readilystand astraddle of the middle bar of frame and put its nose through thesnonting-hole. Between the upper sideboards I cut in, and, at the properheight, nail the boards M and N, which have their lower edges cut out toreceive the back of the pig when raised ofi its feet by thelifting-frame. This frame consists of the sills F 0, bars P Q R, (Qbeing the handle by which the rear end is raised,) and S a hinged leg,all properly framed and-fastened together. Any ordinary gate may be usedto allow only one pig at a time to enter the pen and secure it thereuntil on the frame. When the pig goes to the circular opening in frontgate it must stand in the openings of the lifting-frame; in thatposition it is raised off its feet by the frame, which, by raising thehind end, slides the pig forward, entering its nose in snout-hole andsecuring its back in the cuts of M and N. With a proper hinged leg, S,the foot resting in holes cut in the inclined floor, the pig may beeasily secured and left in that position, so that the same person whodrives in and lifts the pig may shut down the gate K, secure the nose,and then cut or put rings in the snout or rooter.

I claim as my invention The gate K, board or bar G, and theliftingframe, constructed substantially as described,

and combined to operate in the manner substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

MARTIN OAYWOOD.

Witnesses:

A. J. STRONG, J. M. TROYER.

